RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- The Brazilian government said Friday the country's COVID-19 death toll surpassed 125,000 after registering 907 more deaths in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of fatalities to 125,521.
Additionally, 51,194 new COVID-19 cases were reported, bringing the national count to 4,092,832 cases.
Sao Paulo, the most populous and hardest-hit state in the country, has reported 845,016 cases and 31,091 deaths, followed by Rio de Janeiro, with 232,489 cases and 16,467 deaths.
Brazil has the second-highest number of COVID-19 infections and deaths in the world, only behind the United States, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. Enditem
